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Related Words:
- altruistic,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- humble,
- modest,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- unacquisitive,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self
- altruistic,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- humble,
- modest,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- unacquisitive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self
- self-denying
collapse - willing to deprive yourself related words >
- Albigensian,
- Catharist,
- Franciscan,
- Sabbatarian,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abstinent,
- altruistic,
- anchoritic,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- eremitic,
- flagellant,
- humble,
- mendicant,
- modest,
- puritanical,
- rigoristic,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- unacquisitive,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- wedded to poverty
- altruistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- devoted,
- diffident,
- disinterested,
- humble,
- modest,
- rabbity,
- retiring,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-deprecating,
- self-depreciating,
- self-depreciative,
- self-devoted,
- self-distrustful,
- self-doubting,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- shy,
- timid,
- unacquisitive,
- unassertive,
- unassured,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfconfident,
- unselfish,
- unselfreliant,
- unsparing of self
- Olympian,
- altruistic,
- candid,
- charitable,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- considerate,
- dedicated,
- detached,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- elevated,
- generous,
- high-minded,
- humble,
- impartial,
- impersonal,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- modest,
- neutral,
- open,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- thoughtful,
- unacquisitive,
- unbiased,
- ungrudging,
- uninfluenced,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unswayed
- altruistic
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- showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others related words >
- almsgiving,
- beneficent,
- benevolent,
- bighearted,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- charitable,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- considerate,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- eleemosynary,
- freehearted,
- generous,
- good,
- greathearted,
- humane,
- humanitarian,
- humble,
- kind,
- largehearted,
- liberal,
- magnanimous,
- modest,
- noble-minded,
- open-handed,
- philanthropic,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- unacquisitive,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- welfare,
- welfare statist,
- welfarist
- abstemious
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- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy
- marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious with the use of adverbs"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" related words >
- Apostolic,
- Encratic,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Rechabite,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- abstentious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- celibate,
- chaste,
- continent,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- exiguous,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- meager,
- mean,
- miserly,
- narrow,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- paltry,
- parsimonious,
- poor,
- puny,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- self-abnegating,
- self-denying,
- sexually abstinent,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- spar,
- spare,
- sparing,
- starvation,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- temperate,
- thin,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- vegetarian,
- watered,
- watery
- unselfish
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- not greedy
- disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others related words >
- Olympian,
- altruistic,
- bighearted,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- candid,
- charitable,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- detached,
- devoted,
- disinterested,
- dispassionate,
- free,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- generous,
- giving,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- handsome,
- hospitable,
- humanitarian,
- humble,
- impartial,
- impersonal,
- large,
- largehearted,
- lavish,
- liberal,
- lofty,
- magnanimous,
- modest,
- munificent,
- neutral,
- open,
- open-handed,
- openhanded,
- openhearted,
- philanthropic,
- princely,
- profuse,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- stintless,
- unacquisitive,
- unbiased,
- ungrudging,
- uninfluenced,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unsparing,
- unsparing of self,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- unswayed
- unpretentious
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- lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" related words >
- altruistic,
- arcadian,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- devoted,
- direct,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- genuine,
- homely,
- homespun,
- honest,
- humble,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humblest,
- inartificial,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- least,
- low,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- mean,
- meek,
- modest,
- native,
- natural,
- naturelike,
- pastoral,
- plain,
- poor,
- rural,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- simple,
- small,
- straightforward,
- teachable,
- unacquisitive,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unambitious,
- unartificial,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- undesigning,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulating,
- undistinguished,
- unembellished,
- unfeigning,
- unimportant,
- unimposing,
- unobtrusive,
- unostentatious,
- unpossessive,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unspoiled,
- unvarnished
- dedicated
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- devoted to a cause or ideal or purpose; "a dedicated dancer"; "dedicated teachers"; "dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"- A.Lincoln related words >
- abandoned,
- afire,
- altruistic,
- ardent,
- beatified,
- blessed,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- burning,
- canonized,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- constant,
- decided,
- decisive,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- disinterested,
- earnest,
- faithful,
- fast,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- hallowed,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- humble,
- impassioned,
- in earnest,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- loyal,
- modest,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- purposeful,
- red-hot,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- sacrificing,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- serious,
- set apart,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- spirited,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- tenacious,
- tested,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- true,
- unacquisitive,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- vehement,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- zealous
- committed
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- bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude; "committed church members"; "a committed Marxist" related words >
- abandoned,
- affianced,
- afire,
- altruistic,
- ardent,
- assured,
- beholden,
- beholden to,
- betrothed,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- bounden,
- bounden to,
- burning,
- compromised,
- consecrated,
- constant,
- contracted,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- determined,
- devoted,
- devout,
- disinterested,
- duty-bound,
- earnest,
- engaged,
- faithful,
- fast,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- flaming,
- guaranteed,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- humble,
- impassioned,
- in duty bound,
- in earnest,
- indebted to,
- intended,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- loyal,
- modest,
- obligate,
- obligated,
- obliged,
- obliged to,
- obstinate,
- on fire,
- passionate,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- pledged,
- plighted,
- promised,
- purposeful,
- red-hot,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- sacrificing,
- saddled,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- serious,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- spirited,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- sworn,
- tenacious,
- tested,
- tied,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- true,
- unacquisitive,
- under obligation,
- underwritten,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- vehement,
- warm,
- warranted,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- zealous
- disinterested
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- unaffected by self-interest related words >
- Laodicean,
- Olympian,
- abstract,
- aloof,
- altruistic,
- apathetic,
- ataractic,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bored,
- candid,
- careless,
- casual,
- colorless,
- comatose,
- committed,
- consecrated,
- dedicated,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- devil-may-care,
- devoted,
- dispassionate,
- disregardful,
- distant,
- dull,
- easygoing,
- equitable,
- evenhanded,
- fair,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- heedless,
- hopeless,
- humble,
- impartial,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in a stupor,
- inattentive,
- incurious,
- indifferent,
- inexcitable,
- insouciant,
- just,
- lackadaisical,
- languid,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- lofty,
- mindless,
- modest,
- negative,
- negligent,
- neutral,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- objective,
- open-minded,
- passive,
- perfunctory,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- pococurante,
- poker-faced,
- reckless,
- regardless,
- remote,
- resigned,
- sacrificing,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- slack,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stoic,
- stolid,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- torpid,
- turned-off,
- unacquisitive,
- unanxious,
- unbiased,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- undazzled,
- undiscriminating,
- uninfluenced,
- uninquiring,
- uninterested,
- uninvolved,
- unjaundiced,
- unmindful,
- unpossessive,
- unprejudiced,
- unprepossessed,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsolicitous,
- unsparing of self,
- unswayed,
- withdrawn
- humble
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- marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful; "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
- used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
- low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
- cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him" related words >
- abase,
- abash,
- abject,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- adapting,
- adaptive,
- adjusting,
- altruistic,
- amenable,
- apologetic,
- base,
- baseborn,
- beat down,
- below the salt,
- bend,
- break,
- break down,
- bring down,
- bring low,
- bring to terms,
- broken,
- bump,
- bust,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- chasten,
- chastened,
- cockney,
- committed,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compliant,
- conquer,
- consecrated,
- contrite,
- crush,
- debase,
- dedicated,
- deferential,
- deflate,
- degrade,
- demean,
- demeaning,
- demote,
- deplume,
- devoted,
- disadvantaged,
- discomfit,
- disgrace,
- disgrade,
- disinterested,
- displume,
- domesticated,
- dovelike,
- downgrade,
- embarrass,
- fell,
- flatten,
- gentle,
- homely,
- housebroken,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humbled,
- humblest,
- humiliate,
- ignoble,
- in the shade,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- insignificant,
- junior,
- lamblike,
- least,
- less,
- lesser,
- let down,
- lose face,
- low,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lower,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- master,
- mean,
- meek,
- melted,
- mild,
- minor,
- modest,
- mortify,
- nonclerical,
- obedient,
- obscure,
- obsequious,
- ordinary,
- overmaster,
- override,
- overwhelm,
- pacific,
- passive,
- peaceable,
- penitent,
- penitential,
- penitentiary,
- plain,
- plebeian,
- poor,
- prostrate,
- pull down,
- put down,
- put out,
- put to shame,
- quell,
- quiet,
- reconciled,
- reduce,
- repentant,
- reserved,
- resigned,
- respectful,
- ride down,
- rude,
- sacrificing,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- servile,
- shabby-genteel,
- shame,
- sheepish,
- simple,
- sink,
- small,
- smash,
- softened,
- strip of rank,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subdue,
- subdued,
- subject,
- subjugate,
- submissive,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- suppress,
- tame,
- tamed,
- teachable,
- third rank,
- third string,
- third-estate,
- touched,
- trample down,
- trample underfoot,
- tread underfoot,
- tyrannize,
- unacquisitive,
- unambitious,
- unaspiring,
- unassuming,
- unboastful,
- uncomplaining,
- underprivileged,
- undistinguished,
- ungenteel,
- unimportant,
- unimposing,
- unman,
- unobtrusive,
- unostentatious,
- unpossessive,
- unprepossessing,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unresisting,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unwashed,
- vanquish,
- vulgar
- devoted
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- zealous in devotion or affection; "a devoted husband and father"; "devoted friends" related words >
- Christian,
- Christianlike,
- Christianly,
- abandoned,
- absorbed,
- absorbed in,
- acquiescent,
- active,
- adoring,
- affectionate,
- afire,
- altruistic,
- appointed,
- ardent,
- beatified,
- believing,
- blessed,
- bound,
- bound and determined,
- buried in,
- burning,
- canonized,
- caring,
- caught up in,
- committed,
- compliant,
- complying,
- conforming,
- conjugal,
- conscientious,
- consecrated,
- consistent,
- constant,
- contemplating,
- contemplative,
- cultish,
- cultist,
- cultistic,
- dear,
- decided,
- decisive,
- dedicated,
- definite,
- demonstrative,
- destined,
- determined,
- devoted to,
- devout,
- disinterested,
- doomed,
- doting,
- duteous,
- dutiful,
- earnest,
- engaged,
- engrossed,
- engrossed in,
- enthusiastic,
- faithful,
- fast,
- fatal,
- fated,
- fateful,
- fervent,
- fervid,
- fiery,
- filial,
- firm,
- flaming,
- fond,
- foredoomed,
- hallowed,
- hearty,
- heated,
- hot,
- hot-blooded,
- humble,
- husbandly,
- immersed in,
- impassioned,
- in earnest,
- in store,
- in the cards,
- inevitable,
- intense,
- intent,
- intent on,
- involved,
- languishing,
- law-abiding,
- lost in,
- lovelorn,
- lovesick,
- lovesome,
- loving,
- loyal,
- marble-constant,
- marked,
- maternal,
- meditating,
- meditative,
- melting,
- meticulous,
- mindful,
- modest,
- monomaniacal,
- monopolized,
- obedient,
- observant,
- obsessed,
- obstinate,
- occupied,
- on fire,
- ordained,
- parental,
- passionate,
- paternal,
- perfervid,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- practicing,
- prayerful,
- preoccupied,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- purposeful,
- red-hot,
- regardful,
- relentless,
- religious,
- resolute,
- resolved,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- romantic,
- sacrificing,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- scrupulous,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- sentimental,
- serious,
- set apart,
- sincere,
- single-minded,
- soft,
- solemn,
- spirited,
- stable,
- staunch,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- studious,
- studying,
- submerged in,
- submissive,
- swept up,
- taken up with,
- tenacious,
- tender,
- tested,
- theistic,
- thoughtful,
- totally absorbed,
- tried,
- tried and true,
- true,
- true-blue,
- unacquisitive,
- unfailing,
- unpossessive,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- uxorious,
- vehement,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- warm,
- white-hot,
- wholehearted,
- wifely,
- willing,
- worshipful,
- wrapped in,
- wrapped up in,
- written,
- zealous
- modest
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- free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"
- not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
- not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance
- marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself; "a modest apartment"; "too modest to wear his medals"
- free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes" related words >
- Olympian,
- aloof,
- altruistic,
- backward,
- bashful,
- becoming,
- betwixt and between,
- blank,
- boggling,
- budget,
- cheap,
- chilled,
- chilly,
- clean,
- cold,
- committed,
- common,
- consecrated,
- constrained,
- cool,
- coy,
- decent,
- decorous,
- dedicated,
- delicate,
- demeaning,
- demure,
- demurring,
- detached,
- devoted,
- diffident,
- disadvantaged,
- discreet,
- disinterested,
- distant,
- dry,
- dull,
- easy,
- economic,
- economy,
- elegant,
- expressionless,
- fair,
- fair to middling,
- fairish,
- faltering,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- frugal,
- guarded,
- hesitant,
- hesitating,
- homely,
- humble,
- humble-looking,
- humble-visaged,
- humblest,
- icy,
- immaculate,
- impassive,
- impersonal,
- in the shade,
- inaccessible,
- inconspicuous,
- indifferent,
- inexpensive,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- inglorious,
- innocuous,
- insipid,
- introverted,
- junior,
- lackluster,
- least,
- less,
- lesser,
- limited,
- low,
- low-priced,
- lower,
- lowest,
- lowliest,
- lowly,
- manageable,
- mean,
- mediocre,
- medium,
- meek,
- middling,
- minor,
- moderate,
- namby-pamby,
- nice,
- nominal,
- of a kind,
- of a sort,
- of sorts,
- offish,
- ordinary,
- passable,
- plain,
- poor,
- priggish,
- prim,
- prissy,
- proper,
- prudish,
- pure,
- puritanical,
- qualmish,
- reasonable,
- reluctant,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressed,
- reserved,
- respectable,
- restrained,
- restricted,
- reticent,
- retiring,
- sacrificing,
- scrupulous,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- seemly,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-abnegatory,
- self-conscious,
- self-denying,
- self-devoted,
- self-effacing,
- self-forgetful,
- self-immolating,
- self-neglectful,
- self-neglecting,
- self-renouncing,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-unconscious,
- selfless,
- sensible,
- servile,
- shabby,
- shoddy,
- shrinking,
- shy,
- silent,
- simple,
- small,
- so-so,
- spotless,
- squeamish,
- stainless,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- stickling,
- straitlaced,
- stuffy,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subdued,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- suppressed,
- teachable,
- tedious,
- temperate,
- third rank,
- third string,
- timid,
- timorous,
- token,
- tolerable,
- unacquisitive,
- unaffable,
- unambitious,
- unapproachable,
- unaspiring,
- unassertive,
- unassuming,
- unassured,
- unblemished,
- unboastful,
- uncongenial,
- undefiled,
- undemonstrative,
- underprivileged,
- understated,
- undistinguished,
- unelaborate,
- unembellished,
- unexaggerated,
- unexceptional,
- unexpansive,
- unexpensive,
- ungenial,
- unimportant,
- unimposing,
- unobtrusive,
- unornamented,
- unostentatious,
- unpossessive,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unselfish,
- unsparing of self,
- unsullied,
- vapid,
- vulgar,
- wishy-washy,
- withdrawing,
- withdrawn,
- within means,
- worth the money
- ascetic
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- practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
- pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Apostolic,
- Apostolici,
- Catharist,
- Diogenes,
- Encratic,
- Encratite,
- Franciscan,
- Hieronymian,
- Hieronymite,
- Lenten,
- Pythagorean,
- Pythagorist,
- Rechabite,
- Sabbatarian,
- Shaker,
- Spartan,
- Stoic,
- Timon of Athens,
- Trappist,
- Waldensian,
- abbacomes,
- abbot,
- abstainer,
- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- anchoress,
- anchorite,
- anchoritic,
- apologetic,
- astringent,
- atoning,
- austere,
- bald,
- banian,
- bare,
- beadsman,
- bedridden invalid,
- bhikshu,
- brother,
- caloyer,
- candid,
- celibate,
- cenobite,
- chaste,
- cleansing,
- cloistered monk,
- closet cynic,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compensational,
- compensatory,
- continent,
- conventual,
- conventual prior,
- dervish,
- desert fathers,
- desert saints,
- direct,
- disciplined,
- dry,
- dull,
- dwarfed,
- dwarfish,
- eremite,
- eremitic,
- exiguous,
- expiatory,
- fakir,
- flagellant,
- forbearing,
- frank,
- friar,
- frugal,
- fruitarian,
- grand prior,
- gymnosophist,
- hermit,
- hermitess,
- hieromonach,
- homebody,
- homely,
- homespun,
- hydropot,
- impoverished,
- invalid,
- isolationist,
- jejune,
- lay abbot,
- lay brother,
- lean,
- limited,
- loner,
- lustral,
- lustrational,
- lustrative,
- marabout,
- matter-of-fact,
- meager,
- mean,
- mendicant,
- miserly,
- monastic,
- monk,
- mortified,
- narrow,
- natural,
- neat,
- nephalist,
- nephalistic,
- niggardly,
- on the wagon,
- open,
- outcast,
- palmer,
- paltry,
- pariah,
- parsimonious,
- penitential,
- piacular,
- pilgrim,
- pillar saint,
- pillarist,
- plain,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- poor,
- prior,
- propitiatory,
- prosaic,
- prosing,
- prosy,
- puny,
- pure,
- purgative,
- purgatorial,
- purifying,
- puritan,
- puritanical,
- reclamatory,
- recluse,
- recompensing,
- redeeming,
- redemptive,
- redressing,
- religieux,
- religious,
- reparative,
- reparatory,
- repentant,
- repenting,
- restitutional,
- restitutive,
- restitutory,
- restrained,
- righting,
- rigoristic,
- rustic,
- sannyasi,
- satisfactional,
- scant,
- scanty,
- schooled,
- scrawny,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- seclusionist,
- self-abasing,
- self-abnegating,
- self-denying,
- self-forgetful,
- selfless,
- severe,
- sexually abstinent,
- shut-in,
- simple,
- simple-speaking,
- skimp,
- skimpy,
- slender,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- sober,
- solitaire,
- solitary,
- solitudinarian,
- spare,
- sparing,
- squaring,
- stark,
- starvation,
- stay-at-home,
- stern,
- stingy,
- stinted,
- straightforward,
- straitened,
- stunted,
- stylite,
- subsistence,
- sworn off,
- teetotal,
- teetotaler,
- teetotalist,
- thin,
- trained,
- unadorned,
- unaffected,
- unimaginative,
- unnourishing,
- unnutritious,
- unpoetical,
- unvarnished,
- vegetarian,
- water-drinker,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedded to poverty,
- yogi,
- yogin
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